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Ofiicial : Lagos APC primary results. by Alphaoscar: 7:10am On Dec 05, 2014
LANRE Ope 0
TKW 7
Adekunle Disu 7
Abayomi Suttan 0
Adesanya Tokunbo 7
Ikuforiji 182
Tola Kasali 68
Shasore 121
GOS 272
Tayo Ayinde 17
Dr Leke Pitan 112
Hamzat 1201
Ambode 3735
Re: Ofiicial : Lagos APC primary results. by youngteajay: 7:18am On Dec 05, 2014
wetin happen to ambode result
Re: Ofiicial : Lagos APC primary results. by bamidele029: 7:20am On Dec 05, 2014
They are still counting Amode's
Re: Ofiicial : Lagos APC primary results. by Alphaoscar: 7:23am On Dec 05, 2014
Ambode's result is still been counted but he is the clear winner.
Re: Ofiicial : Lagos APC primary results. by Alphaoscar: 7:58am On Dec 05, 2014
Here Is What You Have To Know About The APC
Gubernatorial Candidate In Lagos State...
AKINWUNMI AMBODE,FCA


INTRODUCTION
Akinwunmi Ambode (born June 14, 1963) is an
accountant, an administrator and a public finance
management expert. He is the Chief Executive
Officer of Brandsmiths Consulting Limited – a firm
that specializes in public sector finance
management. Ambode was formerly the Accountant-
General of Lagos State, Nigeria, and held many
sensitive financial positions in the Lagos State
government in a 27-year career in the Lagos State
Civil Service. He is a Fellow of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and a
Member of the Nigerian Institute of Management. He
is the founder of La Roche Leadership Foundation, a
non-profit organization focused on developing the
next generation of leaders. He is married to Bolanle
Patience Ambode (nee Odukomaiya) and they are
blessed with children.

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
Akinwunmi was born on June 14, 1963 at the Epe
General Hospital, Epe, Lagos, as the sixth of ten
children. His late father, Festus Akinwale Ambode
was a teacher while his mother, Christianah Oluleye
Ambode (nee Oresanya) was an entrepreneur who
ran a thriving sewing business in her prime. In
1967, when Akin was still four years old, his father
moved to the mainland part of Lagos with the family
and continued his teaching career until his death in
1981. Akinwunmi Ambode began his education at
St. Jude’s Primary School, Ebutte Meta, Lagos,
Nigeria in 1969. In 1974, while still in Primary 5, he
sat for the National Common Entrance Examinations
and was admitted to Federal Government College,
Warri in the same year.

Ambode spent 7 years in Warri, where he completed
his Ordinary and Advanced Levels and had the
distinction of achieving the second best result in all
of West Africa in the Higher School Certificate
Examinations in 1981. He was on the school’s
Hockey and Cricket teams and was part of the then
Bendel State Cricket team while still a student.
Ambode proceeded to University of Lagos where he
studied Accounting, graduating at the age of 21 in
1984. He completed his mandatory[National Youth
Service Corps year serving with the Central Bank of
Nigeria, Sokoto, Sokoto State, where he started his
relationship with the Public Service.

CIVIL SERVICE CAREER
After his NYSC year, Ambode commenced his career
at the Lagos State Waste Disposal Board (now
LAWMA) as Accountant Grade II. He enrolled for
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN)
exams and at the same time was awarded a Federal
Government Scholarship to pursue a Masters
Degree in Accounting at the University of Lagos. By
the time he was 24, Ambode had qualified as a
Chartered Accountant and had completed his
Masters Degree programme in Accounting,
specializing in Financial Management.
His career was fast-tracked and in 1988, Akinwunmi
Ambode was appointed the Assistant Treasurer,
Badagry Local Government. In 1991, he was posted
to Shomolu Local Government as Auditor. He was
later deployed to Alimosho Local Government as
Council Treasurer. Ambode was posted back to
Shomolu as Council Treasurer and later on to
Mushin Local Government as Council Treasurer. He
criss-crossed many Local Government Councils in
different roles in a 10-year period and got a first-
hand experience of the direct impact of governance
on the citizenry.

In 1998, Ambode was awarded the US Fulbright
Scholarship for the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship
program, in Boston University, Massachusetts, USA.
His Fellowship Year was spent studying Public
Leadership with emphasis on Finance and
Accounting. During this programme Ambode had
professional internships at The Federal Reserve
Bank of Boston, the Cabinet Office of Administration
and Finance (Governor’s Office), City of Boston
Treasury Office as well as with the World Bank and
IMF.
On his return from the programme, Ambode became
acting AuditorGeneral for Local Government. This
position was confirmed by the State House of
Assembly in 2001.

In January 2005, Ambode was redeployed to
mainstream public service as the permanent
secretary of the Ministry of Finance. By February
2006, Ambode was given the added responsibility
ofaccountant general for Lagos State, in charge of all
the financial activities of the state and directly
responsible for over 1400 accountants in the state
service. Under his watch, the State Treasury Office
(STO) revolutionized the way Lagos State finances
were raised, budgeted, managed and planned. In his
six years as the Lagos State accountant general, the
state's financial performance improved visibly with
the budget performing at a remarkable average of
85% annually. Ambode believes that "public financial
management is about ensuring that public money is
well spent and it is made to stretch as far as
possible. It provides leaders and public-sector
managers with information to make decisions and to
know if they are using resources effectively.

SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
Ambode is a very active member of the Federal
Government College, Warri Old Students Association
(FEGOCOWOSA) and is credited with revitalizing the
Lagos branch of the Association. Ambode was a
two-time chairman of the Lagos State Branch, and,
until recently, was the National President of the
Association, a position he held for three years. In
those three years, he executed key projects in the
school in conjunction with the alumni network to
improve the educational and living standards of the
students.

THE PUBLIC FINANCE CONSULTANT
After 27 years in the civil service, Ambode
voluntarily retired in August 2012. He founded
Brandsmiths Consulting Limited to provide Public
Finance and Management Consulting services to
government at all levels, its parastatals and
agencies. Brandsmiths, in collaboration withPrice
Waterhouse Coopers, has trained government
accountants and finance personnel to prepare them
for the cut-over to the International Public Sector
Accounting System (IPSAS) which is to become
effective in 2015.

COMMUNITY SERVICE
His belief in mentoring and passion for passing on
leadership skills gave birth to La Roche Leadership
Foundation, which he founded in 2012. This is a
non-profit organization that has a mandate to
develop the educational and leadership skills of
young Nigerians, to inculcate in them leadership
values as a way of grooming future leaders in all
spheres of life. La Roche is presently spearheading
an initiative, ‘The Flags Project’, to install Nigerian
and Lagos State flags in all government owned
schools in Lagos State. The Foundation has also
donated tools to technical colleges to support
training of artisans.....

Wish You BEST Performance In Lagos From 2015

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